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Hi Brad,

Ask not what you can do to maximise your SEO, but what can you do to make your user experience better.

In other words ensure that your visitor gets all the info he/she needs.

1. Make sure you link to products in the Video Description so anyone watching can easy find and purchase.

2. Have you considered creating a transcript to go along with the video?

3. Are the videos embedded on your product pages?

4. Have you shared the videos with your social circles?

5. Are the videos correctly branded with your website logo and URL? alot can change in a few years is the branding the same as it was when the videos were produced?

6. Have you considered creating some new videos? You channel may or may not have subscribers who could come back and view your new videos and maybe purchase a product or two.

These are just my initial thoughs on what I would consider doing, I'm sure you have already touched upon these.

Cheers

Aran

On reflection, this is the kind of story that is going to gain some momentum in the business/marketing world and will probably generate a bucket load of nice authority links for the site...could this be a double bluff?

either way mr negativeseo might have undone all his hard work simply by boasting about his exploits! I hope so.

Agreed Matt, that is scarey. though a years worth of work to deindex one competitor seems like a lot of hard work for little gain.

I'd rather spend the year doing something positive and not being a complete git.

After looking over the site in question, it may not be down to the negative SEO, theres an awful lot that could be improved on that site.

Hi Simon,

Check ou this thread from January, http://www.seomoz.org/q/best-geotargeting-strategy-subdomains-or-subfolders-or-country-specific-domain

Theres some Good and Endorsed Answers in there.

Also check out Rand Fishkins post from late 2010, a little dated but the essence remains the same. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/ranking-for-keyword-cityname-in-multiple-geographies

Hopefully these should set you in the right path.

One additional point to note is to make sure you setup Google places correctly, I feel that will benefit your site greatly.

Cheers

Aran

How do you propose to encourage your users to like or +1 your pages?

I've seen many companies encourage tahier website visitors to Like their pages by making the social share a requirement for entry into a competition. Ive also seen the same with tweets and getting people to retweet a URL for entry.

I suppose as long as your not forcing the user to so it, no click jacking and not buying the likes, you should be ok. Depends on your strategy.

Hi,

I found this problem on my blog yesterday, dupe content found through tag, author and date archives.

Installed Yoast SEO for Wordpress plug in, its awesome and free.

http://yoast.com/articles/wordpress-seo/

Theres some guides on the canonical and dup content issues on the link above.

Enjoy

Aran

Hi,

There are plug ins which handle 301 redirects so I'd start by checking your plugs section and seeing what is active.

Wordpress uses a HTAccess file to store its 301's and such. However if you are inexperienced with handling a HTAccess file, I'd leave it be ad ask a expert to have a look at it as you can seriously mess up your site.

yes its better than useful, its awesome.

SEOmoz whiteboard friday do it, thus its good.

Plus, I don't have speakers on my work PC and if I've left my headphones at home, I'm scuppered!

the dreaded call to the client, I dont envy you, but be open and honest and all will work out for the best.

Aas SEOs were supposed to notice the finer details, but were only human.

In the past I've put these 'issues' down to 'communication problems with the clients outsourced develeopers', perhaps they should cosider moving development to you guys

If you had 1000 links coming from a russian porn site, then you may get penalised as it doesn't appear to be a natural link profile.

However one or two links from foreign sites is not a bad thing. If your site is being discussed/linked too in other countries then it should be a sign that its good if not great!

I Agree with EGOL, however to answer our point on Articles Good or Bad. They're most definitely a good thing.

Attracting clicks, links, likes and bookmarks are great for your seo and attracting mor visitors in. I find for every 100 visitors that visit  my article pages around 6% will share the content one way or another and thus drag in more visitors.

If nothing else it builds a bit of brand recognition in my niche and build my SEO.

Hi MisterG,

I feel your pain and learnt the same lesson a few years back. Now i double check everything our devs do.

I agree with you that the canonical is tell Google to go rank the .com as its the authorative owner of the co.uk's content.

How log its going to take to remedy after sortig out the canonical is anyones guess. I suppose it depends on how often you get crawled (deeply).

Be patient and cross your fingers! (oh and dont be too harsh on the devs, they are simple logical creatures!)

Hi Cameron,

Your idea wih the logs may not be so great. I would consider the usefulness fo the logs to your users will they help your users? Probably, but not by having to rifle through hundreds of lines of logs.

Why not use the logs to find out your most common tech support issues and make a really good FAQ area?

This way you can preiodically review the logs and keep adding ew items to the FAQ and its going to help our visitors whilst adding great new content.

Regards

Aran

Build some industry specific info graphics or jump on a meme that you could tailor to your industry.

A good post on creating info graphics

A great post on utilising memes

Have you considered Social networks as a way to get your content out there and build links, whilst also engaging your target audience?

Share links to your great content on twitter with relevant hashtags, check out http://hashtags.org and build a following. Though its not enough to simply blast out links to your followers, you'll need to engage them too.

Check out the white board friday video on building links with twitter

Also, theres facebook which you could use to grab your audience and potentially build links

Linked in if your industry isn't facebook prone.

Flickr and deviantart if your idustry is so inclined.

Create a tumblr blog to highlight your content (one of my favourites)

Pinterest,oh what did I do without it? yes pin some relevant, cool images of stuff you may sell or relevant to your industry and if its good enough people will share it.

There are other ways too but, I could literally go on all day.

Check this out http://www.seomoz.org/article/social-media-marketing-tactics

Theres a lot to digest, but its not rocket science.

Best of luck and if you get stuck, come back and ask some more

Regards

Aran

You may want to mix up you anchor text a bit and maybe throw in some longer tail phrases. Having too many exact keyword phrases may do you some harm.

I think the service your really looking for it content creation to bait backlinks.

You essentially want someone to create awesome content and share it through social channels/blogs etc to encourage inbound links, no?

Or do you want someone to scour the web for mediocre links to build to your site?

Hi Tom, Im in the same boat, we have glorious feedback on both Ebay and Amazon and would love to show that on our website (without diverting people to our ebay or amazon stores).

Unfortunately ebay user agreement states  "you will not take any action that may undermine the feedback or ratings systems (such as displaying, importing or exporting feedback information off of the sites or using it for purposes unrelated to eBay).

Source: http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/user-agreement.html

Agreed.

Hi Jarno,

You Say "there are some factors that SEO's use that can be an issue", what do you image these could be?

Cheers

Aran

Your kind of right, but DA/PA are only guestimates, they don't hold and actual bearing on rank as each niche can vary wildly.

I'd focus on my actual SERPs and number of visitors.